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<\/a><\/div>\nLove: Agape<\/i>, Storge<\/i>, Phileo<\/i>, Eros<\/i>. The four Greek words for love. Currently, all evidence points to modern culture being stuck on eros<\/i> alone, while ignoring the other three.<\/p>\n
At least that is how it seems to me. C.S. Lewis wrote a book that I need to get to one of these days, entitled The Four Loves<\/a>.<\/i> There needs to be a balance of Love and when one type dominates, harmony is shattered. What to do? How about some songs. Genesis, Land of Confusion.<\/i> Phil Collins and Company singing of the times back in the 80\u2019s. The irony is, it could just as easily be about 80, 880, 1080, 1480,1980, 2080. The key issue is the same; \u201cthere\u2019s not much love to go round.\u201d What are we waitng for? There is no time with God: a thousand years, a single day: it is all one. (2 Peter 3:8)<\/i><\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ezKJBE6ttyY?fs=1<\/a>\n U2,The Fly.<\/i> Maybe you never heard this song, or it\u2019s message from Bono and the Gang. It didn\u2019t exactly climb up the charts. Lead singer Bono comments \u201cI always thought \u2018The Fly\u2019 was the phone call from Hell. It took \u2018U2\u2019 15 years to get from Psalms to Ecclesiastes and its only one book!\u201d Lots of messages unbundled here.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kGSbadw0sD8?fs=1<\/a>\n Tears for Fears, Sowing the Seeds of Love.<\/i> One of my wife\u2019s favorite songs, and mine too. And great symbolism in this video as well. I especially like the planting of the seed, and then looking to the left and right and seeing others doing the same. In my mind, St. Paul\u2019s exhortation<\/a> in 1 Corinthians Chapter 13 comes to life. That and the words of Our Lord,<\/p>\n Amen, amen, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains just a grain of wheat; but if it dies, it produces much fruit. (John 12.24).<\/i> I can only speak for myself when I admit that I need to plant more seeds of love, and fewer seeds of self-interest.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dbvxALFWvHs?fs=1<\/a>\n
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Four words for love and four songs about love, none of which are about eros.<\/i> Because frankly, there is more than enough coverage of eros<\/i> nowadays and not near enough about Agape<\/i>, Storge<\/i>, and Phileo<\/i>. <\/p>\n